BRUCELLA MENINGOENCEPHALITIS IN CHILDHOOD

31 October 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Neuropediatrics

Vol. 12 (04) , 330-336
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1059665

Abstract

An 11-year-old girl developed a subacute illness characterized by fever, malaise, depression, and meningoencephalitis. The etiology remained elusive until her agglutinin titer against Brucella abortus rose from 1: 20 to 1: 320. Brucellosis is an uncommon illness in children, and neurological involvement has been described in only ten cases. Brucella meningoencephalitis is characterized by a lymphocytic pleocytosis and elevated protein in the cerebrospinal fluid. Patients respond well to specific therapy; it is important, therefore, to consider the diagnosis of brucellosis in patients with subacute meningitis of unexplained etiology.

Keywords

BRUCELLOSIS MENINGOENCEPHALITIS

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European Neurology, 1977
Human Infection with Brucella canis
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1972